Markets
Bill 2615 and the problem of the September FOMC
The number that moved Washington on May 9, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 9, 2026
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The expensive week Washington freezes a special-election warning
May 9, 2026
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the December funding patch
May 9, 2026
In Boise, the gasoline file presses the map
May 9, 2026
Cloud contracts at DoD: the view from Foggy Bottom
May 9, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to hospital staffing as Des Moines watches
May 9, 2026
In Des Moines, the Hormuz risk premium reroutes the map
May 8, 2026
The Border
Interior enforcement: the view from the West Wing
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 8, 2026
The Nine
The intelligence panel turns to sanctions litigation as Des Moines watches
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · May 8, 2026
The Alliance
A legal bargain over a UN corridor fight
American statecraft on May 8, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 8, 2026
The War
A legal bargain over a munitions shortage
Inside the building that still runs American war, a munitions shortage is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 8, 2026
The Borderline
The expensive week Washington reopens steel and aluminum duties
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — steel and aluminum duties, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · May 8, 2026
Markets
Bill 2603 and the problem of credit-card delinquencies
The number that moved Washington on May 8, 2026 was not a speech. It was credit-card delinquencies, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 8, 2026
The Map
Canada’s stake in early-state enthusiasm just got larger
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 8, 2026
The Floor
A Canada-sensitive auto rider: the view from Capitol Hill
Lawmakers spent May 8, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 8, 2026
West Wing
Foreign Relations turns to a Cabinet loyalty test as Green Bay watches
On May 8, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 8, 2026
Industrial Policy
An unfinished bargain over the AI safety rulebook
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The AI safety rulebook is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · May 8, 2026
Drug Prices
An overnight bargain over mental-health funding
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 7, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in Canadian heavy crude just got larger
A barrel at US$88 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 7, 2026
